Judy Shelton Restoring Order to the Global Currency System

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News Date: July 21, 2020

President Donald J. Trump Announced Intent to Nominate Individuals to Key Administration Posts,
Judy Shelton of Virginia, to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for the remainder of a 14-year term expiring January 31, 2024.
She is author of:
The Coming Soviet Crash: Gorbachev's Desperate Pursuit of Credit in Western Financial Markets.
Money Meltdown: Restoring Order to the Global Currency System.
Source:www.whitehouse.gov
Judy Shelton interview on gold standard:
"I like the idea of a gold backed currency, it could even be done in a Cryptocurrency sort of way.
A unified money system, so when you talk about the international marketplace, everyone is playing on a level monetary playing field.
I don't see it so much as returning [to the gold standard], more like 'back to the future.' I think that what a gold standard stands for is monetary discipline for its own sake. Money is supposed to be a unit of account, a reliable measure and a dependable store of value. It really shouldn't be subject to who's the chairman of the Federal Reserve.
How can a dozen [...] people meeting eight times a year, decide what the cost of capital should be versus some kind of organically, market supply determined rate? The Fed is not omniscient. They don't know what the right rate should be. How could anyone? [...] If the success of capitalism depends on someone being smart enough to know what the rate should be on everything we're doomed. We might as well resurrect Gosplan.
A linked system could allow currency convertibility by individuals (as under a gold standard) or foreign central banks (as under Bretton Woods). Either way, it could redress inflationary pressures.
Source:twitter.com

Lebanon Cancels Central Bank Debts, Which is next?

Lebanon Recovery Plan Includes Central Bank Debt Write-Off, Haircuts to Depositors.
The government foresees canceling a large part of the central bank's foreign currency obligations to commercial banks.
The plan includes several measures that are prerequisites to unlock funds from a preliminary deal with the IMF agreed in April.
Sources: usnews.com

Congress letter to encourage the Treasury to utilize blockchain and DLT

Eleven members of Congress are calling on the U.S. Treasury Department to look at new technologies, including blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT), to help streamline how cash and supplies are distributed under a federal law trying to boost the economy during the COVID-19 crisis.
Source:coindesk.com

The FEDs independence Days Are Numbered

Sometime back in March, the Federal Reserve began quarantining cash bills arriving from Asia. The move was meant to protect Americans from the coronavirus, but it was not entirely necessary. Cash usage was already at an all-time low.
The Fed is going to buy stocks. I do not know precisely when , but it will happen, and probably soon. It does not want to buy stocks but knows it is too dangerous to rule out. Since financial markets are like teenagers - continually testing boundaries - expect the Fed to keep getting pressed on this issue.
Sources:www.forbes.com, www.barrons.com

The financial system is changing right now

Russian minister says: we are working on digital One World One Currency for trade - local media.
Russian financial messaging system will be able to replace SWIFT - financial infrastructure will work smoothly - Russian Central Bank Chair.
Stocks booming in Chinese SWIFT alternative - CIPS.
The Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS) is a payment system that offers clearing and settlement services for its participants in cross-border RMB payments and trade.
It is a significant financial market infrastructure in China.
CIPS is sometimes referred to as the China Interbank Payment System.
Bank of Russia Resumes Gold Buying After Two Years on Sidelines.
Russia-Ukraine war is 'a financial war now': Deutsche Bank

What is the Gold Standard

Gold standard, monetary system in which the standard unit of currency is a fixed quantity of gold or is kept at the value of a fixed quantity of gold. The currency is freely convertible at home or abroad into a fixed amount of gold per unit of currency.
In an international gold-standard system, gold or a currency that is convertible into gold at a fixed price is used as a medium of international payments. Under such a system, exchange rates between countries are fixed; if exchange rates rise above or fall below the fixed mint rate by more than the cost of shipping gold from one country to another, large gold inflows or outflows occur until the rates return to the official level.
President Franklin Roosevelt suspended the gold standard in 1933, a move which is widely credited with helping the country climb out of the Depression.
Sources: youtube.com, www.cbsnews.com